MetaMuse: Algorithm Generation via Creative Ideation

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Hauptverfasser: Ma, Ruiying, Liang, Chieh-Jan Mike, Gao, Yanjie, Yan, Francis Y.
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Ma, Ruiying
Liang, Chieh-Jan Mike
Gao, Yanjie
Yan, Francis Y.
author_facet Ma, Ruiying
Liang, Chieh-Jan Mike
Gao, Yanjie
Yan, Francis Y.
contents Designing system algorithms remains challenging, where the discontinuous nature of the solution space often forces system engineers to rely on generic heuristics at the expense of performance. We study whether LLMs can practically drive algorithm generation, and find that they are biased towards well-known generic designs, rather than making the creative leaps needed to navigate the discontinuous solution space. To address this limitation, we introduce MetaMuse, a framework for creative ideation built on three self-reflection principles: (1) quantifying solution diversity and usefulness in measurable performance space, rather than abstract idea space, (2) steering ideation through external stimuli, rather than internal randomness, and (3) constructing executable solutions using waypoint reasoning, rather than free-form chain-of-thought. Considering two critical online problems at a global cloud provider, extensive evaluations show that MetaMuse can generate high-performing solutions: it reduces cache misses by up to 35.76% in cache replacement and reduces bin usage by up to 30.93% in online bin packing.
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spellingShingle MetaMuse: Algorithm Generation via Creative Ideation
Ma, Ruiying
Liang, Chieh-Jan Mike
Gao, Yanjie
Yan, Francis Y.
Artificial Intelligence
Designing system algorithms remains challenging, where the discontinuous nature of the solution space often forces system engineers to rely on generic heuristics at the expense of performance. We study whether LLMs can practically drive algorithm generation, and find that they are biased towards well-known generic designs, rather than making the creative leaps needed to navigate the discontinuous solution space. To address this limitation, we introduce MetaMuse, a framework for creative ideation built on three self-reflection principles: (1) quantifying solution diversity and usefulness in measurable performance space, rather than abstract idea space, (2) steering ideation through external stimuli, rather than internal randomness, and (3) constructing executable solutions using waypoint reasoning, rather than free-form chain-of-thought. Considering two critical online problems at a global cloud provider, extensive evaluations show that MetaMuse can generate high-performing solutions: it reduces cache misses by up to 35.76% in cache replacement and reduces bin usage by up to 30.93% in online bin packing.
title MetaMuse: Algorithm Generation via Creative Ideation
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03851